![]() In that time of identity in flux, I started investigating my sexuality I watched porn for the first time I cut my hair short in an act of radical self-possession and three days before my thirteenth birthday, I agonized over what my first Facebook profile picture would be, something earnest but cool enough to represent me. ![]() But most importantly, I-along with my friends and peers-spent those years engaged in two processes of highly curated identity-formation: While growing into myself and crafting an image to survive the humiliations of tween-hood, I was also constructing a version of me meant specifically for public consumption online. It was an embarrassing time of semi-adulthood that saw me sporting a lot of cargo shorts, letting my hair flow down to my shoulders, and dating my first girlfriend. When I think about the early 2000s, one element quickly elbows itself to the forefront of my memory: middle school.
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